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Get excited about your book

As you lay plans to write a book on your expertise, three things start to excite you. The idea of having that completed book – and of being An Author, if it’s your first book. All that exciting expertise that you have to share. All those people that you can help. Excitement about your book is part of the motivation that will keep you going.

Get excited about your book

Think of the book that you want to write – this is the year it actually happens.

The first idea often feels the most exciting at first: having that completed book; being an author. Think of the book that you want to exist – that this is the year it actually happens. And as you start to smile about that, let your thoughts spread out to what’s inside the book.

My favourite part of this is creating a blog book. If you’ve been blogging for a year or two, or even more, you’ll be amazed how much content your blog has and how much you’ve written. Better yet, print your blog book out and bind it, then curl up to read it. As new ideas leap out, scribble them in the margins. Remember why you’re in this field, how exciting all this stuff is to you, how much you know.

Get excited about your readers

Think of all the people who want and need your expertise, the difference you could make to them.

Think of all the people who want and need your expertise, the difference you could make to them. Some of them might never be able to afford your help – but they’ll be able to afford your book! Some of them might be favourite clients who you know will leap at the chance to read your book. Get creative: gather some pictures of your readers and stick them up in front of you.

2 thoughts on “Get excited about your book”

Megan
I started to write a book about the trip of the “Caltex Riau”, a trip on a ship that turned out to be unseaworthy, took 4 months, got lost in the Indian Ocean and suffered from a terrible accident of two Chinese cooks trying to slaughter each other. But …. apart from a short summary; I am too old to be energetic enough to do it. Although your blogs are a kind of inspiration, or rather encouragement. Will think about it again.
Thanks
Jakob Vlietstra